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Voters react to Federal Leaders Debate

But Green Party leader Elizabeth May, one of only two members of her party to hold seats in the House of Commons in the last Parliament, wasn’t as concerned about deficits, saying it was “the wrong time for austerity measures” amid a “weak and shrinking economy”.

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He said the Liberals are playing a “dangerous game” by refusing to put a specific number on what threshold of victory separatists would need in a referendum.

While Green Leader Elizabeth May and NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair were busy arguing over which one of them was more opposed to pipelines, Trudeau accused Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of bungling negotiations with the American government to get the Keystone XL pipeline built.

According to Environment Canada, annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have fallen twice since 2006.

Asked about that today in Richmond Hill, Ont., Harper insisted 80 per cent of the Canadian economy is growing – only the energy sector is shrinking due to falling oil prices.

During his familiar stump speech, the NDP leader declared that Harper’s approach has been a failure – leaving the middle class struggling to make ends meet.

“Obviously Mr Harper, we can’t afford another four years of you”, he said.

There is no “i” in team, but there is in “prime minister”.

“I also suspect a lot of voters aren’t going to pay much attention to the campaign through the month of August”, Hamish Telford told News 1130. The leader of the Opposition was MIA for days. Follow along for all your debate needs!

Mulcair tried to pick apart the Conservative economic record, reminding Harper that in the 2008 election, he denied the country had slid into recession when in fact it was on the verge of a profound economic crisis. Trudeau shot back that Mulcair “is choosing to side with the separatist movement in Quebec”. The next leaders debate will take place on September 17 (a day after the next GOP debate) in Calgary. Mulcair said he would support military action sanctioned by the United Nations or under Canada’s North Atlantic Treaty Organisation commitments. Mulcair stuck to his position that he will await a federal environmental review. The Liberal leader tried to avoid this fate, by pivoting to the issues of the government failing veterans when they got home and the demonization of the Muslim community, but Harper pushed back.

Let’s be realistic, the Maclean’s Magazine sponsored debate was hard to find and seemingly designed to exclude anyone except policy wonks and strategy nerds. “He was a little bit more human in this one, which we don’t always see”. Harper referred to as the election within the lifeless of summer time final Sunday, triggering an uncommon 11-week federal marketing campaign fairly than the standard five-week marketing campaign.

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The Toronto Sun obtained an audio clip Thursday of Vaughan discussing a Netflix tax at an October 2014 town hall meeting when talking about “trans-border companies that broadcast in, but don’t contribute to, the Canadian broadcast spectrum”.

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